1984 riots: Jharkhand Government seeks time on commission’s report

Jamshedpur: The Jharkhand High Court heard a PIL filed for compensation to the families of the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and monitoring of the criminal cases registered. The court granted time to the government to register its reply.

 A division bench of Chief Justice Sanjay Kumar Mishra and Justice Anand Sen, while accepting the request of the Jharkhand government, gave time to file a reply on the report of the member commission. The next hearing will be on August 8. Satnam Singh Gambhir, East India president of All India Sikh Students Federation, who filed a public interest litigation in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, said that earlier the bench was told by the state government that Justice DP Singh, constituted on the orders of the High Court, the report of the one-member commission headed by him has been received. In the light of the said report, the state government will file a compliance report, for which the government has been requested to give time.

Advocate Diwakar Upadhyay presented the same side on behalf of the applicant Satnam Singh Gambhir.

Satnam Singh Gambhir informed that the commission has passed an order regarding compensation to the victims of Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Palamu in the anti-Sikh riots in Jharkhand.